New English Canaan, or, New Canaan : containing an abstract of New England, composed in three bookes : the first booke setting forth the originall of the natives, their manners and customes, together with their tractable nature and love towards the English : the second booke setting forth the naturall indowments of the country, and what staple commodities it yealdeth : the third booke setting forth, what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their tenents and practise of their church

by: Morton, Thomas, 1575-1646

Publication date: 1637

Topics: Indians of North America -- Massachusetts -- Early works to 1800, New England -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: Printed at Amsterdam : By Iacob Frederick Stam

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

188, [4] p. ; 19 cm (4to)

Partly in verse

Signatures: A⁴(±A1) B-2A⁴.

Title page vingette; head- and tailpieces; initials

The title page is a cancel

With two final contents leaves

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy H.98.72 bound in 19th-century brown goatskin paneled and tooled in gilt. Spine paneled and tooled in gilt. Bookplate of the BPL Pierce Fund. BPL embossed stamp on title page. Booksellers' numbers/marks at front and back. Early ownership inscription at head of title page trimmed away. Acquired Jan., 1887.